Kosuke Kimura was back on the Rapids backline Saturday against Sporting K.C. -- and he scored.

This installment of Rapids player ratings come courtesy of Craig de Aragon, a longtime Rapids fan, committee member with the Class VI supporters group and current Rapids correspondent on the “Around The League” show on the Champions Soccer Radio Network:

I spent Saturday morning sitting in a classroom learning how to do CPR and First Aid. After giving up two goals to Sporting Kansas City in the first 14 minutes of the game, I thought I was going to have to use my newly acquired skills to revive the fledgling, flat-lining Rapids team.

Fortunately, that was unnecessary, as the make-shift backline was able to figure things out. They not only held Sporting Kansas City scoreless for the rest of the game, but they scored both goals to give the Rapids a much needed draw and point.

Without regular starters Omar Cummings, Marvell Wynne, Pablo Mastroeni and Brian Mullan, Rapids coach Oscar Pareja gave us much to discuss with his curious starting line up decisions.